BUNDY TO EDIT 'FOREIGN AFFAIRS'

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100540013-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 8, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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William P. 1>uncly, former
Assistant Secretary of State
for i',ast Asian and Pacific
Affairs, will c~ssunle the cdi-
torship of the prestigious
quarterly, Foreign Affairs.
The ma.;azine, generally
regrtrdecl as the bible of the
foreign policy "establish-
mellt," has been ecliteci for
most of its ~,9 scars by llani-
ilton Fish Armstrong.
Bundy will assume Ills
new position in the fall of
1972 when Foreign Affairs
publishes its 50th anniver-
sary issue. Ile is now a senior
research associate of the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technologgy's Center for In-
ternational Studies.
Although he was one of
the important ClrcaftSIlle11
and executors of American
polity in Vietu?nt Burin? his
service in tirc;? Departments
of State and Defense, Bundy
has grown increasingly
skeptical in recent writings
of the possibility= of nlilit' ry
victory over the forces of Vi-
etnamese Communism.
des have changed and
many new elements have entered into the decisions that
must be made," he said in
an interview yesterday.
"The issue is not wllether
the were right or wrong at
the time the decisions were
made in 1903. The important
thing is what should be
Wi//loin 1'. JJundy
clone in the light of changed
conditions."
In the January' issue of.
Poreig}n - Affairs,' Bundy
wrote that "fundamentally
the United States is
stratet
ically on the defense; and
the outcome hinges on local
strength and will in South
Vietnam, Laos and Cant.
bodin."
Fundy, brother of Mc-
George Lundy, ' President
Johnson's special assistant
for national security affairs,
is now writin a book on the
Vietrianl war.
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